Originally Posted by
lbj
Mellow - comparing apples and oranges.
EVO had his core squad - NW picked up at the end of the season with a full squad and still brought people in - who wouldn't have been cheap !
Stubbs had the worst of all world's and under the circumstances did very well .
And EVO & NW KJ all walked due to lack of budget ? - AS was trying to work through it - but he was our only chance - playing the Burton way....PW's appointment was game over.
It's all been said before - so your understanding isn't a criteria I'm particularly bothered about....belive what you want and enjoy next season.....I couldn't care less !
Silly - with the lack of cash to bring in the number of players we had to - a championship player of Blackstock's calibre on a FREE was ok - the negotiations were controlled by PD & TS and the FREE swayed the deal but agent got DB a longer deal than we would / should have given.
As for defensive over attacking - Hibs conceded joint least in there league and played great attacking football.
Wards goals last year showed our attacking prowess last season - only a leaky defence let us down and that fault would have been sorted with just one window.
As for RB....he was a terrible "attacker" - more Yates than Ward - and as for his coaching forwards - a cut and paste
( back up information ) - because I respect that some don't DYOR....
About RB......
"It is often said a manager learns more in the bad times than the good, in which case Crawley Town’s Richie Barker is currently receiving a fast-track education.
The League One side have neither scored a goal nor won a point in four matches...
But some of our many forwards might - hopefully - be self taught....
UTM New season.....but in league ONE
the squad should be fine - it's for the managers to lose now.....it's their arrs's on the line as they have what they wanted and they are PW's kind of players!
Let's see where that takes us ?